Eyes, backs and thumbs, sentence 0

After two hours of Roblox curled over his tablet like a prawn, Kai stood up and said «ow, my neck» in the voice of his grandad.

Who acts: Kai · What happens: curl over, stand up, say · To what, where: tablet, voice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes, backs and thumbs» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kai), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	3 hours	case
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hours	nummod
3	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 curled	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Roblox	case
5	Roblox	Roblox	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hours	nmod
6	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 stood	advcl
7	over	over	ADP	_	6 curled	compound:prt
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tablet	nmod:poss
9	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 curled	obl
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 prawn	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 prawn	det
12	prawn	prawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 curled	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 curled	punct
14	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 stood	nsubj
15	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 stood	compound:prt
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stood	conj
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 ow	punct
20	ow	ow	INTJ	_	23 neck	discourse
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 neck	punct
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 neck	nmod:poss
23	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	parataxis
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 neck	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 voice	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 voice	det
27	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 grandad	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 grandad	nmod:poss
30	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 voice	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 stood	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curl over	participle	Kai not said here	Roblox's tablet		hour	like a prawn	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
2	stand up	past	Kai					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Kai not said here		the voice of Kai's grandad			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs.lesson:0.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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